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Connectives as Processing Signals: How Students Benefit in Processing Narrative and Expository Texts
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Direct linkvan Silfhout, Gerdineke; Evers-Vermeul, Jacqueline; Sanders, Ted – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2015
Many young readers fail to construct a proper mental text representation, often due to a lack of higher-order skills such as making integrative and inferential links. In an eye-tracking experiment among 141 Dutch eighth graders, we tested whether coherence markers (moreover, after, because) improve students' online processing and their off-line…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Eye Movements, Grade 8
Colle, Livia; Baron-Cohen, Simon; Wheelwright, Sally; van der Lely, Heather K. J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2008
We report a study comparing the narrative abilities of 12 adults with high-functioning autism (HFA) or Asperger Syndrome (AS) versus 12 matched controls. The study focuses on the use of referential expressions (temporal expressions and anaphoric pronouns) during a story-telling task. The aim was to assess pragmatics skills in people with HFA/AS in…
Descriptors: Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Language Impairments, Pragmatics
Download full textHickmann, Maya; And Others – 1989
A study examined the development of discourse cohesion in first language acquisition within a functional and cross-linguistic perspective. The analyses focused on how children introduce new referents in discourse across four languages: English, French, German, and Mandarin Chinese. The data base consists of narratives produced by children between…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Coherence
